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Themes:Identity, cultural memory, narratology. The images follow and develop those ideas in works from 2006 -2011 as Linga-Franca;Opaque + Objects of Desire all based on archaeological evidence in  the domain of the ancient East/West 'Silk Routes'. Texts and travelogues are included within the picture-plane of Recto-Verso [2012]. ...
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My socially engaged art practice creates events and encounters with people in everyday situations using everyday objects and materials. I invite participants and passersby to engage actively with art, to be part of the action, especially those who might not step into designated art spaces. These temporary relationships exist in the local and are...
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My work focuses on human nature, in particular group dynamics and social isolation.  I am interested in the many facets of human behaviour - from the kindest of gestures to more sinister actions and Machiavellian treachery.  As well as depicting dramas I also create tiny tales of growing and crumbling relationships using...
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My work oscillates between painting as image and painting as a material process. I'm concerned with the tension that exists between the illusion and the surface. Working from personal photography and found images, I utilise the effects of reproduction and pixilation on a painterly aesthetic. I start by painting the image in a...
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Concepts I am a sculptor primarily working in stone to create public art pieces as well as smaller works for private clients and residencies in schools. My work is nearly always site-specific and often, I will engage the public or schools in the creative thinking process when formulating ideas for a piece. Not only does this help in...
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Billie Ireland has a fascinated not only of the natural world but in the rituals of painting; particularly in her own process and also in religious and spiritual creative practice. Billie Ireland paints and carves into these finely prepared surfaces. The paintings have illusionary areas of depth created by obsessive layering, allowing conscious...
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I am an artist who makes work across the fields of visual art, writing, performance and curatorial practice.  Inspired by the clown and the fool, I make mischief that is playful - defiant, teasing and delivered with a dry wit and humour, and often in the form of pranks. The pranks and performances I create instigate dialogues, which are...
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Concepts My More recent work is generated by reflection and enquiry into the balance between ourselves and our placement through systems of language, translation regulation, and social grouping. I am particularly interested in how we use classification and taxonomy as a proxy for knowledge. I utilise playful strategies to consider the...
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I work with installation and have developed aspects of this work as video. My work takes the form of energy fields unexpectedly made visible, with a core theme of renewal, at times relating to environmental issues, the metaphysical and spirituality in its deepest sense. I work through the materials exploring their inbuilt properties and how they...
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My projects explore the territories between art, ecology and politics and take the form of live events, installations and interventions in public places. Through repeated experiments and actions in specific places, I seek to interrupt my assumptions and understand perspectives I could not see alone. I craft particular objects which open up a...
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I document found photographic subjects, to experiment with the idea of cultural identities and integration. Being images of war, glamour and landscapes(all that are changeable). My aim is to juxtapose these images to make a balanced image that aesthetically works, using images that conflict, that can seem not to work. Two subjects that do not...
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I paint places, objects, or things that I would categorise somewhere between place and object.  They are the starting point for a process of improvisation and meditation.   Subject matter comes to me slowly- I can't force it!  Places I've walked by hundreds of times or a photo that I put aside years ago can suddenly make sense...
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The Work of Louise Garland engages with the philosophical belief in the continuum of life. It examines the nature of our existence, linking the personal (especially from a female context)with the metaphysical, with references to the collective notions of archaic symbolism.Garland incorporates found materials and objects into her pieces.there is a...
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Within Lizz Brady's creative practice, the unveiling of her own psychological struggles is at the forefront of every touch to canvas or pen to paper. Central to the artists work are the themes of depression, mania, anxiety, dreams and her own confusion between reality and fiction. Brady explores these subjects through a multitude of media...
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My work looks at the contradictions between the digital and the old manufacturing industries, exploring memory and identity through landscape and place.With new technology and new materials offering fresh possibilities how can we adapt and take advantage without forgetting about our traditions and skills passed down from generation to generation.I...
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In 2007 we made a decision to work collaboratively and to exhibit as a permanent joint identity. This followed independent careers as artists since the mid 1970s. Our collaborative work is based on a combination of our separate skills and inspirations. All our current work has been produced by casting epoxy resins. Colours are cast in sequence,...
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Through installation, expanded sculpture, photography and film and sometimes pseudo-scientific experiments, I am trying to create a dialogue between space and place using interventions and interruptions as part of a site-specificity that explores in-between spaces, inside and outside, nowhere and somewhere. I use temporary, ephemeral and...
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Simon Withers is a visual artist, performer and writer; he lives and works in Nottingham. His artistic practice includes exhibition and event curation. Over the past five years Simon co-foundered mere jelly, an artist run agency, through which mere jelly promoted the work of nine East midland based artists work at a London art fair. In 2004 he...
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My work is mainly created by objects, belongings and memorabilia that surround us every day. As an avid collector and self confessed hoarder of mundane and quirky items, I assemble my treasures into still life photographs. My earlier work used traditional photography practices; however majority of my current work has been photographed digitally. ...
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My practice is a personal response to objects and places using the medium of painting and print-making. I start with a formal approach using drawing and photography to investigate form, structure, texture and space.Inspired by travel and encounters with new places, most recently I have been working with a theme of the urban landscape. I am...
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Public Art should encourage and stimulate interaction with the world around us. It should evoke a sense of pride and wonder for the unique quality of the places where we live, visit and work. The right public art, in the right place can contribute to the heritage, culture and future economy of the area by creating inspirational...
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I am an artist, writer and curator with over thirty years experience of contemporary art production, curation and writing. Most recently my research falls into two distinct though interrelated activities original artworks and commentaries on contemporary work. There are three strands to the origination of artworks. Current work is focused on...
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I explore the absurd and how our acceptance of the relationship between what is and what is not shapes our understanding. Examining and subverting the context of images, the object and traditional sculptural display, I am interested in the conventions that relate to our understanding of physical objects and the virtual world.Poking the nonsensical...
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I have always been fascinated by the way objects and structures (mostly manufactured) affect or manipulate light which falls on them, passes through them or reflects from them. Early work involved consciously harnessing projected light and manipulating it to produce sculptural installations. Objects, which appeared to be three-dimensional,...
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Louisa Chambers examines ideas surrounding machines, devices and inventions, and how they could assist humans living in temporary or placeless worlds. Multiple dimensions and perspectives are explored through the materiality of paint and the repetition of geometric motifs which are floating ambiguously in space. Impossible architectural...
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I am a Nottingham-based artist and illustrator originally from Rochdale. Inspired by the ordinary things in life, my work is quirky and contemporary with a refreshing take on modern life. Liberally dosed with wordplay, humour and imagination, my work combines words with pictures. It's equally important for me to come up with exactly the right...
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My work is exclusively drawing based and investigates activity and gesture. Relating to the individual moving through space it reveals, recreates and documents ensuing residual marks and indicators of contact. Work ranges from large, meticuously rendered drawings to collections of accidental, intentional and found marks. Alongside the...
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ConceptsMy work has always had an element of humour, this is especially so in my personal kinetic pieces where it seems to be an unavoidable part of the process of making animated figurative sculptures. The choice of subject material has followed various themes, but is often a take on my personal experiences of the world.Influencespolitics,...
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Serena Smith is an English artist based in Leicestershire. Working primarily with printmaking, the images she creates often develop through her skilled use of lithography; a print medium she learned in her training at the Curwen Studio. In ongoing projects she pursues this interest; her recent work with digital photography and hand drawn stone...
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The work of the artist Joan Ainley includes installations, editions, multiples and unique pieces that are exemplified by their capacity for multi-layered readings. The use of camouflage not to conceal but as an agent to focus attention is a characteristic of her approach. Making connections and linking the past, present and future are central to...
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My work translates photographs of videos of films into paint. I'm interested in the new meanings and surface qualities of the altered image, occurring through so many layers of distance. I explore ways of mark-making which can express my nostalgia for the look of TV: the way it shimmers and pulsates with colour. In describing a few moments of...
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For nearly fifty years David Ainley's paintings have involved approaches in which changing states and 'histories' have been significant concerns. In the 1960s studies of processes of plant growth influenced biomorphic images which The Guardian noted for their 'poetic intensity', 'invariably imaginative, non-repetitive, and...
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